“the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite.”

In recent years, academia defined populism as

“an ideology that pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice”.

Source: Wikipedia

洪秀柱覺得民粹不好，那我就不懂了：

國民黨總統候選人提名是經過“民調”的高低來決定的。在眾多的民調裏，洪秀柱比其他幾個國民黨的 privileged elite ；王金平，吳敦義，郝龍斌，朱立倫，等等要 popular。她從民調中脫穎而出纔能在今天成為國民黨的總統候選人。換句話來說，洪秀柱受到 common people 的愛護，她就應該爲 common people 謀福利才對。

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The Chinese is too advanced for me. Populism is an interesting word, in western democracies it’s almost always used in a pejorative sense. There’s always an implication that populists are falsely promising something they can’t, or have no intention of , delivering. I think it is often used unfairly.